Marketing Online Secrets

How to be Indexed by Yahoo Quickly

Nowadays, getting indexed by the major search engines usually take weeks, if not months of waiting. I’ll like to share with you this little known secret of getting Yahoo to index your new website very quickly, which I discovered accidentally.

A few months ago, I bought my domain name from Yahoo for $1.99, since that is the cheapest deal in town. After registering the domain name, I set up a free starter page with Yahoo and forgot about it. To my pleasant surprise, when I check for my domain name days later, it was already indexed by Yahoo, even though it contains only a few short paragraphs. Now that’s a fantastic perk that I wasn’t expecting for just $1.99! It does make good business sense for Yahoo to treat its customer well.

On hindsight, I don’t recommend putting up the starter page with Yahoo as somehow Google has difficulty indexing it. My website was indexed by Google about 6 weeks later. What I recommend is to get the domain name from Yahoo and either take up Yahoo’s web-hosting package or redirect it to your existing web-host or your free blog. This is very easily done through the control panel which you will have full access to. However, if you wish to transfer the domain name to another web-host, it can only be done after the first 60 days.

The $1.99 domain offer is only for the 1st year and subsequent year is at $9.99. The cancellation policy is very transparent and there is no binding contract to stay with them for more than one year if you don’t wish to. To me, Yahoo is the best place to register my first domain name. They have exclusive promotion from time to time for their customers, such as $50 credit for Yahoo sponsored search, free download of their site builder, etc.

So if you need a domain name, here’s the link to click - $1.99/1st yr. domains from Yahoo!

If you don’t need a domain name yet, there are other methods to get your site indexed quickly. Mainly it involves getting back-links from sites with high PR. Will talk more about that in the next post.

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